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Stories :: Category: Security :: Accepted date: February 2019

Updated: 23 May, 23:2223:22

Several survivors want an independent commission of inquiry into the killing so that appropriate interventions are formulated to support the victims and help them attain psychological healing. They also want a monument built in memory of the departed.

According to guidelines issued by the Ministry of Education at the height of school fire outbreaks in 2018, all schools operating boarding sections are required to have spacious dormitories, firefighting equipment, fire emergency exit plans, and qualified security personnel, among others.

Victim accounts and police statements show that the gangs operate along the Northern by-pass covering the Bwaise-Namungoona-stretch, Hoima Road, Nabweru-Bwaise areas and other suburbs in Nansana Municipality. They don white or black tracksuits.

According to report from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 5,000 people have fled to Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo to escape fighting and violence against civilians in the last one month.

Brig. Innocent Oula said that the UPDF needs a training of trainers course in civil-military operations and disaster management which will boost the forces capability to extend the same to its troops handling peace support operations.

Leopold Kyanda, the Joint Chief of Staff-Land Forces also emphasized the need for soldiers to desist from having multiple sex partners that expose them to HIV/AIDS scourge which he said remains one of the challenges UPDF is grappling with.

Presiding over the 6th pass out of Local Defense Unit, LDU personnel who completed a four months training at Olilim Training School, Katakwi district, noted that nothing rewards in the military other than honesty.

His narration of the liberation struggle sheds a true picture about a group that devoted time, energy and commitment on a very tough mission. However, the pride of participating in the struggle fades with the agony over the failure to access his pension.

Mbayo was speaking at the opening of a one-week Induction Retreat for Resident District Commissioners-RDCs and Deputy Resident District Commissioners at the National Leadership Institute-NALI in Kyankwanzi on Wednesday afternoon.